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Of a white or pale color; without color. To the blank moon Her office they prescribed. Milton.

To cover with a blanket. I'll . . . blanket my loins. Shak.

A clause, as in a blanket mortgage or policy, that includes a group or class of things, rather than a number mentioned individually and having the burden, loss, or the like, apportioned among them.

One that covers a group or class of things or properties instead of one or more things mentioned individually, as where a mortgage secures various debts as a group, or subjects a group or class of different pieces of property to one general lien.

A buttonhole stitch worked wide apart on the edge of material, as blankets, too thick to hem.

Cloth for blankets.

In a blank manner; without expression; vacuously; as, to stare blankly. G. Eliot.

The state of being blank.

A thick blanket formerly in common use in the western part of the United States.

Hence, direct; plain; unqualified; -- said of language; as, a point-blank assertion. Point-blank range, the extent of the apparent right line of a ball discharged. -- Point-blank shot, the shot of a gun pointed directly toward the object to be hit.

A kind of worsted blanket or wrap.

A blank book, in which to insert autographs sketches, memorial writing of friends, photographs, etc.

ainable. [Obs.] General Howe would not permit the purchase of those articles [clothes and blankets] in Philadelphia, and they were not attainable in the country. Marshall.

e metal balls. -- Ball cartridge, a cartridge containing a ball, as distinguished from a blank cartridge, containing only powder. -- Ball cock, a faucet or valve which is opened or closed by the fall or rise of a ball floating in water at the end of a lever. -- Ball gudgeon, a pivot of a spherical form, which permit…

Arch.), ornamental stonework resembling bars of iron twisted into the forms required. -- Blank bar (Law). See Blank. -- Case at bar (Law), a case presently before the court; a case under argument. -- In bar of, as a sufficient reason against; to prevent. -- Matter in bar, or Defence in bar, a plea which is a final…

A home-made woolen blanket without nap. [Local, New York] Bartlett.

A strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page; also, a type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.

Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.

broad band of white round the middle, while the rest of the body is black; -- called also blanketed cattle.

A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.